Advanced Fitness Assessment & Exercise Prescription

"Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription" answers the need for a complete set of procedures for evaluating fitness and prescribing exercise for apparently healthy adults. From field tests to laboratory techniques, it provides a well-balanced approach to the assessment of physical fitness, covering cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular fitness, body weight and composition, flexibility, and neuromuscular relaxation. Students and professionals will benefit from practical tools such as specific test protocols and performance norms, sample case studies and individualised exercise programmes, chapter objectives and highlights, references at the end of each chapter, sources for equipment, appendixes containing useful forms, sample computerised analyses, and much more.